Chapter 603: The Owl Nursery Rhyme (I)
In the darkness of the night, Wayne Manor had a peaceful atmosphere, and Dick, wearing pajamas and nightcaps, walked to his bedroom with a blanket.
He had just finished his homework and fell asleep on the way to his homework, and Alfred put a blanket over him, which made him a little embarrassed.
Bruce attaches more importance to Dick's results, although he doesn't have to be the first, but at least he has to have a reasonable result, and failing is definitely not good.
Dick didn't like to read much, he followed Bruce, originally wanted to learn combat skills and reconnaissance skills, but Bruce said that he was not an adult and had to go to school, so Dick could only go to school quietly.
However, Dick is indeed very smart and does not work very hard, but he can also get in the top three, but he really doesn't like rote memorization, and instead shows himself in various school activities.
And because he practiced acrobatics before, his body coordination is very good, and he is also very dominant in sports, and he also participated in the high jump team in middle school, which can be said to be a typical all-round development.
When he returned to his room, Dick found Aisha waiting for him with a storybook, and Dick walked over, took the storybook and flipped through it, saying, "Where's the story?" Let me see...... Oh, the book has been read. ”
Aisha stared at him with wide eyes, and Dick sighed and explained, "No way, we can't go to the library to get books anymore." ”
"The key is needed to open the door to the library, the key is with Alfred, and now Alfred should be asleep, we can't bother him anymore, that would be rude."
Aisha showed an aggrieved expression, jumped up, took the book from Dick's hand, and then turned to leave, Dick grabbed her and said, "Don't be angry, we can do something else without telling stories, well, I want to think about it......"
"By the way, I used to be in the school choir, and the teacher taught me a few songs, but I didn't like singing very much."
Dikra sat down with Aisha, he hugged the blanket, thought for a while and said, "A few days ago, my Mr. Wayne sorted out the materials, he asked me to learn a song, I think it's quite good, I'll teach you to sing, how about it?" ”
Aisha tilted her head, as if she didn't know what song Dick was talking about, or that she couldn't understand what the song was at all, Dick struggled to recall the song, and then said, "Forget it, no, that song is too complicated for you, I've been memorizing the lyrics for a long time." ”
Aisha screamed, and Dick immediately turned to her and said, "Are you sure you want to learn?" It's really hard......"
Aisha nodded vigorously, and Dick said helplessly, "Okay, you can't be angry if you don't learn it then." ”
"I'll teach you the lyrics first." Dick stood up, ran to the bedside table, took out a pen, and opened the storybook, found an empty place and began to write the lyrics.
Aisha leaned her head over, but she didn't know much of the words yet, so Dick read as she wrote:
"Owl Court...... Keep an eye on your travels ......"
"That's weird, isn't it? But the tune of this song is still very good, I'll teach you to sing it, Owl Court...... Keep an eye on your travels ......"
Dick hadn't experienced the previous battle with the Owl Court, he had no idea that such a thing existed in Gotham, and besides, he read the book and said that the song was just a nursery rhyme, and Bruce didn't show any special attitude towards the song, so Dick just thought of it as a song.
Bruce felt that Dick, who had not undergone a professional music education, could not read the score, let alone sing the song in its entirety.
However, Dick participated in many activities at school, joined the choir, and had a good relationship with the nuns who taught singing, learned some of the basics of sheet music, and was able to watch the sheet music and hum the song.
But because he didn't learn all the things, and he didn't sing seriously, the humming tune was an extremely simplified version, and with the complex lyrics, it was a bit weird, but it was precisely because the tune was simplified that Aisha learned it quickly.
After discovering that Aisha could hum tunes, Dick began to focus on teaching her lyrics again, but Aisha couldn't even speak, and she didn't know a few words, so how could she memorize such a long list of lyrics, so Aisha simplified the lyrics.
In this way, the originally complicated, dark, and gothic owl nursery rhyme has completely become a real children's rhyme.
Perhaps Dick is particularly talented in art, and the children's songs here are really catchy, except for the first two sentences "The owl court always watches over your travel" and did not move, the rest of the words have been changed to remember very well, and it is to ask the children to speak logically, and the tune has become more repetitive, nice and easy to remember.
It didn't take long for Aisha to learn the song completely, it seemed that she liked singing very much, and after learning it, she began to sing non-stop, and even the pronunciation of the words became smooth.
After singing a few times, Aisha became more proficient, she clapped her hands happily, suddenly, she was stunned, and then began to shake her head from side to side, as if looking for something, Dick looked at his reaction a little confused, and asked, "What's wrong?" Aisha? What are you looking for? ”
Aisha showed a very confused expression, she opened her mouth, as if she was biting something, but she didn't bite anything, and she sniffled vigorously, as if she smelled something, but there was nothing around.
Her reaction sent chills down Dick's back, and Dick shuddered, hugged the blanket tightly, looked at Aisha and asked, "What the hell is wrong with you?" Don't scare me......"
Realizing that she didn't find what she was looking for, Aisha thought for a moment, then began to sing again, and after a while, she opened her mouth, took a breath of air, and sniffled again.
As if she had discovered something, Aisha began to sing the nursery rhyme loudly, and later, Aisha found that it was still too troublesome to sing like this, so she further simplified the lyrics and tune, and finally the first line of the whole nursery rhyme remained, plus a simple tune, and kept repeating.
Aisha sang faster and louder, and as she sang, she opened her mouth, and she sang and chewed twice, as if she were eating, and Dick was so frightened that he hurried out of the room, and then went to call Alfred.
After Alfred was called, Aisha was still singing, but Alfred didn't act rashly, he went directly to call and called Bruce, who was working on the Ark reactor model in the Batcave.
When Bruce returned, he saw Aisha like this and asked Dick, "What's wrong?" What is she singing? ”
Because the song has been simplified so much by Dick and Aisha that Bruce doesn't even hear it as the nursery rhyme for a while, Dick thinks he's in trouble and honestly confesses everything.
Bruce looked at Dick and said, "Did you really learn that song?" How did you come to know sheet music? ”
"I went to the school choir, and the nuns who taught me liked me very much, so they taught me to know some notation symbols, but I couldn't recognize them all, only one basic melody, and the rest of the keys were made up by me."
Dick turned to look at Aisha again and said, "After I taught Aisha, she didn't fully learn it, and she probably made up the rest of the tunes." ”
At this moment, Aisha suddenly stopped singing, she stood there and hiccuped, and then suddenly laughed, and ran to Bruce's legs, hugged his legs, and shouted as she jumped, "Daddy! It's so full! Eat your fill! ”
Bruce crouched down, pressed Aisha's shoulder, and looked her back and forth, and found that she was not injured and was still conscious, but what she had just said, Bruce didn't understand.
Aisha is now able to speak words and express herself in words, for example, when Alfred feeds her vegetables she doesn't like, she will say that she is full and does not want to eat.
Bruce looked up at the clock hanging on the wall again, it was now more than 9 o'clock in the evening, it stands to reason that it had been 4 hours before dinner time, Bruce looked back at Alfred, Alfred shook his head and said: "Eating supper is not good for your health, and the Wayne family does not have such a habit." ”
"What did you eat?" Bruce asked.
"Delicious...... So full, full of food! Belch! Aisha would only repeat these words over and over again, and Bruce asked several times, but she couldn't say anything.
Eventually, Aisha understood that Bruce wanted to know the answer, so she dragged Bruce's trouser leg to the window and pointed out the window.
Bruce looked out the window, and there was nothing but the endless night of Gotham.
Seeing that Bruce still didn't understand, Aisha thought about it for a moment, then ran over quickly, jumped on the bed, and turned off the lamp.
At this moment, the whole room was plunged into darkness, and Aisha stood on the bed and jumped up and shouted, "This! Delicious! That's it! ”
Bruce walked over and turned on the lamp, Aisha stopped screaming, he turned the lamp off again, Aisha started screaming again, Bruce stood up, looked at Alfred, and said, "Black? Night? …… Dark? ”
Suddenly, it occurred to him that the creator of this nursery rhyme may be the Dark Owl Sacrifice, and now, when Aisha sings this nursery rhyme, it seems that she is eating, and after eating, she will shout "so full", does that mean that this nursery rhyme may have brought something, and then Aisha ate it?
Thinking of this, Bruce immediately became nervous, he first picked up Aisha, then tugged Dick's arm, and said, "Come with me, come with me, go to the hall!" ”
"Alfred, turn on all the Wayne Manor defense systems, all vehicles are in place, find any abnormalities, and directly maximize the firepower output!"
After saying that, he carried a child in one hand, walked quickly to the hall downstairs, lit all the lights in the hall, and then asked them to stand in the center of the hall, Alfred brought him a full set of Batman's equipment, and after Bruce changed into it, he stood in the hall of Wayne Manor and waited.
But after waiting for a long time, nothing strange came, and at this time, Aisha actually started singing the nursery rhyme again, and then began to chew while singing, and Bruce took the opportunity to look around, but still didn't see anything.
He felt that this might be a matter of vision, some things Aisha can see, it doesn't mean that he can see Aisha, after all, Aisha is reincarnated as a parallax monster, and his soul is a parallax monster, and his soul is an ordinary human being, so it is very likely that Aisha can see things, he can't see.
Not only him, but Dick and Alfred were ordinary humans, so in the entire manor, only Aisha could see that kind of thing.
Bruce admits that he panicked when he found out that there might be something wrong with the nursery rhyme, and at the time, he felt that Dick couldn't read the score, so he asked him to memorize the lyrics.
But this is also because he does not know Dick, and lately he has been busy studying the model of the ark reactor that Schiller gave him, and by the time he got home, the two children were already asleep, and sometimes, dinner was not eaten at home, and the time to chat and tell stories in front of the fireplace after eating was completely gone.
So, Bruce didn't know enough about Dick's school life lately and didn't know what activities he participated in at school, which is why this kind of mistake occurred.
Fortunately, Aisha is not an ordinary child, and if these two children were just ordinary human children, maybe they were entangled in something, and neither Bruce nor Alfred could find out.
Thinking of his previous speculation, that is, Gotham will become so chaotic and dark, maybe it is the dark owl sacrifice that is secretly playing ghosts, so will it be because of his momentary negligence that Dick and Aisha will also embark on an irreparable path?
Thinking of this, Bruce's face slowly turned cold, and instead of leaving the two children, he asked Alfred to take the phone in the living room, pick up the receiver and dial, and then said to the other side:
"Hey, it's me, come to Wayne Manor."
A muddled and hoarse voice came from the other side: "What? Bruce? What did you say? I...... Oh wait, honey, wait, I'll take the call...... I'm not free right now, it's adult time......"
Bruce's voice grew colder and colder, and he said, "If you don't come, then I'll go to you, Konstantin." ”
Konstantin broke out in a cold sweat in an instant, he felt himself being targeted by an irresistible darkness, he shook his head vigorously, and then said:
"Wait for me, I'll be there soon."
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